English National Ballet: Senseless Kindness (2020)

Based on Vasily Grossman's great novel - Life and Fate - Senseless Kindness is about a Russian family caught in the Second World War, and is set to Shostakovich's Piano Trio No1. Using bold lighting and a stark, textured black and white approach, director Thomas James's poetic and elegant film reveals the frantic endurance of the human spirit to endure, and to enjoy.